funding from the European Commission’s (EC) 7th Framework Programme (LASERLAB-EUROPE,grant no.228334);from the Bundesministerium fr Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (03ZIK445 and 03Z1H531)
The development,the underlying technology and the current status of the fully diode-pumped solid-state laser system POLARIS is reviewed.Currently,the POLARIS system delivers 4 J energy,144 fs long laser pulses with an...